Clinical trial · Interventional
Early Warning System
Comparing an Early Warning Alert With a Standardized Triage Intervention to Standard Care for the Management of Hospitalized Patients on General Hospital Wards.
NCT01741480CI-TRIAL-00058425completedN/AResults postedClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
The study will begin in 2013 whereby patients having an early warning system (EWS) alert will be randomized to be seen by the rapid response team (RRT) for triage versus usual care. A RRT is usually made up of a nurse and/or a physician who respond to a requested activation of the RRT (called an "ACT"). The intervention will occur as follows:
Conditions
Conditions (5)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer | Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
| Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Congestive Heart Failure | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Diabetes Mellitus | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Obstructive Sleep Apnea | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early warning system monitoring. | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| routine care | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- PLACEBO_COMPARATOR
- label
- Routine care
- description
- General hospital ward patients will receive routine care.
- interventionNames
- Other: routine care
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Intervention arm
- description
- The intervention with early warning system monitoring is to have the rapid response team assess the patients real-time.
- interventionNames
- Other: Early warning system monitoring.
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- ICU Transfer
- timeFrame
- Patients will be assessed for the primary outcome measure during their hospital with an average of 14 days.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 100 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients hospitalized on the General Hospitals Wards of Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with a do-not-resuscitate order, * Patients not expected to survive their hospitalization.
References
Publications (0)
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No reference posted for this study.